[boost] Re: Review of Daryle Walker's "More IO" library beginstoday, August 21, 2004.

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-01 21:38:42

"Jonathan Turkanis" <technews_at_[hidden]> writes:

> "David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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>> "Jonathan Turkanis" <technews_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>> > "David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> >>
>> >> Have you looked at the new introduction which is linked through
>> >> http://www.boost-consulting.com/boost/libs/preprocessor?
>> >
>> > Excellent! I knew it was available but hadn't looked at it yet. I hope it -- 
> or
>> > something similar -- will be incorporated into the PP docs.
>>
>> The link is incorporated.  What more do you want to see?
>
> Ideally, I'd like to see the contents of Appendix A reproduced, mutatis
> mutandis, as the Introduction to the Preprocessor Library. 

Why?

> I realize this may not be possible; in that case, I'd like a similar
> overview incorporated directly into the docs.

It's probably possible, but I'm not sure it's a good idea.  I'd have
to keep yet another location up-to-date.

> For example, I think it would be a bit odd if the introduction to Boost.Regex
>
>    http://www.boost.org/libs/regex/doc/introduction.html
>
> just consisted of a link to an external article about regular expressions.

?? It's not analogous at all.  The article isn't just about PP
metaprogramming in general.  It's a focused intro to the PP lib.
Just what you'd want as an intro, no?

> I'm not criticizing the content at all.
>
> Jonathan
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